Human nature

It seems to me that these days, people here can no longer see the forest for the trees.

You, who won't do a woman who is virtually a single mother a favour just because she won't do one for you. You (and I) who cannot pretend to even understand what it's like to be mother of an infant. In my weaker moments, I too have judged her. But I think we need to draw the line somewhere and put our own feelings aside and reach out with our helping hand. If not for anything, because it makes you the larger person. Not someone stooped in hate and a fucked up mental accounting system that keeps tabs on who is nice to you and who is not.

Why do you carry so much hate in your head and heart?

To the nation, I ask this question: what is the real deal? Does it matter who is in power, if you know that the basis of human nature is to bend towards self-interest and preservation? All good men have their flaws and biases. The point is to keep these self-interests of leaders in check, so that they remain beholden and constrained by the populace. Otherwise, you might as well throw your vote away.

When a leader insults your intelligence, even if he's doing a good job, you should make him pay by demanding accountability that is put forth in an intelligent and rational manner befitting your own understanding of things. When that fails, vote with your feet. Make him understand that he owes you, and it is not the other way around.

There is a reason why even the most powerful person in Government is called a Government servant.

And when the next man fails, serve him the same medicine.

Until we realise that we alone hold the power over others to keep society on an even keel, we've lost the point completely.

Just as we ourselves hold the power to save the planet from deteriorating into a deluge of unlivable conditions. It's not the big Governments and businesses that will save us. It's our selves.

At the end of the day, accountability begins with the individual person who makes a choice. And it must, ideally, be an informed choice that has received the adequate amount of personal consideration and evaluation guided by one's principles and values. If we assume that people are generally good, then technically we should be alright.

But judging from the state of things, I think human nature is in essence otherwise.